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...Iyanla. At 47, she has risen from a traumatic early life--poverty, rape, a teenage pregnancy, a stretch on welfare, beatings by the relatives who raised her and later by her husband. She left her abusive spouse, put herself through college, became a lawyer, then a self-help/spiritual guru, motivational speaker, best-selling author and perennial Oprah visitor. Now, with her own syndicated show launching Aug. 13, Vanzant is hoping the same life story, empathy and straight-talking humor that made her the quintessential talk-show guest can make her the quintessential talk-show host...
...HIPPIE GURU" HELD IN TRUNK SLAYING...
...Einhorn has been extradited to the United States after a four-year battle. The counterculture guru and notorious fugitive arrived in Friday morning in Philadelphia, where he faces a retrial ? he was convicted in absentia in 1993 of the brutal 1977 murder of his girlfriend...
...conned the French villagers into believing. Nor was he a British writer who had settled in remotest France for quiet inspiration. He was an American fugitive named Ira Einhorn, a man who had risen to fame during the late 1960s and early 1970s as a counterculture guru. Jerry Rubin and Abbie Hoffman were friends, logically enough. But so was an unlikely battalion of bluebloods, millionaires and corporate executives, many of them so charmed by Einhorn's New Age vision that they stood by him even after his arrest for a murder so grisly an entire city had gasped...
...then there's the seers. Jack Welch, management guru of management gurus, is expected to dispense some pearls of wisdom this week about how far corporate America is from daylight. Alan Greenspan hits the House on Wednesday to say something about the economy and nothing about interest rates, and then take questions. (Expect a lot of bombs lobbed about the tax cut, and for Greenspan to calmly reply that fiscal decisions aren't his cup of tea.) And of course the White House will be reminding everyone to please spend your tax rebate immediately, we could sure use the stimulus...